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Fumiko Ishioka is the director of the Tokyo Holocaust Education Resource Center (Kokoro), a non-profit educational organization, since 1998. It aims at helping learners become responsible and active global citizens who value human dignity for all and reject discrimination and prejudice. A protagonist of the award-winning children's book and the documentary film Hana's Suitcase, she received an Honorary Ph.D in Education from York University in Canada in 2006 and Distinguished Service Award from University of Washington, USA in 2016. She has given workshops at over 1,200 schools, lead annual study tours to Europe, and lectures at Aichi University of Education.

In the second episode of histoPOD journalist Annika Brockschmidt talks with Fumiko Ishioka about how the Holocaust is remembered, why the memory of World War II is multi-layered, how it has changed in recent years and why there is no single narrative in Japan.